Beta 4.51.1: "Add TNEF Contents"

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Feb 23 08:56:56 GMT 2006


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On 23 Feb 2006, at 07:44, John Wilcock wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>> > So I'm a bit confused.  With the latest MS TNEF attachments are
>> > > disallowed by default.
>> Due to a current security issue with TNEF handling in Microsoft  
>> code. You may choose to disable this block. Hopefully Microsoft  
>> will fix this issue pretty fast, it should be in an Office update.
>> So this block is temporary, it's not intended to be permanently in  
>> there.
>
> Does the new "Add TNEF Contents" do as its name suggests, i.e. add  
> the attachments from within the TNEF but also leave the TNEF part  
> there?

Yes.

> If so, how about changing things to (optionally?) *replace* the  
> TNEF completely. That way no Microsoft code even gets to see the  
> TNEF...

I always try to leave as much of the original mail in place as  
possible, so I chose to just add to it rather than replace it.

>
> John.
>
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